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SAN DIEGO, California, Sept. 16, 2002 - Data Tree, the nations largest provider of imaged recorded property documents and a member of The First American Corporation (NYSE: FAF) family of companies, today announced the integration of owner name and property information search functionality to its electronic document retrieval systems.
For the first time, customers can locate documents within Data Trees repository of more than 1 billion records without knowing the recording number assigned to those documents by county registrars. Electronic images of publicly recorded deeds, mortgages, judgments, easements and maps can be retrieved and instantly delivered to the customers PC by entering a propertys street address, owners name or assessors parcel number as search criteria.
"Data Tree has long been a backbone repository that large title companies and other high-volume land record search organizations have depended upon for fast, quality results," said Peter Gorrie, chief operating officer for Data Tree. "With the addition of this search capability, we have opened up our system to an entirely new market of smaller firms and individuals, particularly in the Northeastern states where large-scale title plants generally dont exist."
Adding owner/property search capability to the Data Tree repository was made possible through collaboration with other First American database information companies which, when viewed as a whole, possess systems and data far superior to competing providers of property information services.
"First American continuously searches for new ways to maximize the synergies between our companies and develop new and enhanced products," said Dennis J. Gilmore, president of First Americans Property Information Group. "In this case, we were able to leverage Data Trees strengths in building large, indexed databases and combine that with First American Real Estate Solutions industry-leading property records search engine. The result is a unique and flexible product that satisfies the needs of several customer categories."
The new search functionality has been added to Data Trees existing document retrieval and management platform, Data Tree for the Desktop. A Windows-based client application that connects to the Data Tree image repository via a dedicated network connection or via the Internet, Data Tree for the Desktop is an ideal solution for offices-allowing multiple users to share and review documents in a workflow environment-or individuals who regularly conduct land record searches.
"Instead of going to the courthouse for copies of recorded documents, Data Tree customers can now efficiently search for and retrieve land records online," said Gwen Sorensen, director of marketing for Data Tree. "Our new search capability increases the flexibility of the most robust land record retrieval system in the world, vastly increasing its usability for attorneys, engineers, genealogists and other nontraditional land record searchers."
For more information about the property search and recorded land record document images, please contact Data Tree at 800-708-8463, Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Pacific time.
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